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Nurturing entrepreneurship
The office space and ongoing advice offered by Audencia creates an atmosphere where those with creative business ideas can begin to achieve their ambitions. While the principal aim of the school’s emphasis on entrepreneurship is to encourage a general entreprenuerial spirit, some go on to launch their own businesses on campus. They are aided in this process by an in-house entrepreneurship expert who acts as a new business consultant. In this way, the young company creators can be introduced to local and national entrepreneurship networks, be put in contact with other Audencia faculty and the school’s numerous external experts, and benefit from having a business manager as tutor for their project.
Three student company creations
KWD Sarl. Launched by students with an average age of just 21, this solution for creating auto-generated internet sites already lists other entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized companies among its users.
Toutaide.com. Created by an alumnus 2003, this French web site provides budding entrepreneurs with information and help on all public funding available. The site, which records close to 7000 hits a month, is set to expand with an office to open in Paris.
Vacathem. Created by an alumnus of the MS in Entrepreneurship and New Technologies, this innovation provides employees of smaller companies with the sort of social and cultural benefits usually reserved for those working in larger firms. Its creator has now sold the concern to a company of which he has become a director.
